Painting Quotes - Page 2

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.